Well the big day still has not happened; if anything today was a rather "small" day with less than 4,000 birds moving through. The first five hours were especially hard, having counted less than five-hundred birds as I went into the sixth hour.
Today we set a new high for the number of Parasitic Jaegars seen in a day for this season, and that number is 5. This brings us up to 32 PAJA for the season. My goal is not to be the counter with the lowest Jaegar record.
The highlight of the day was the Common Eider flock that stuck around the jetty all day allowing any visitors a good view of them.
Here is a list of birds seen today:
Brant (Atlantic) 7
Wood Duck 4
American Black Duck 37
Northern Pintail 25
Green-winged Teal 10
Greater Scaup 12
Lesser Scaup 4
Common Eider 1
Surf Scoter 1841
White-winged Scoter 1
Black Scoter 556
dark-winged scoter sp. 340
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Red-throated Loon 5
Common Loon 5
Northern Gannet 255
Brown Pelican 6
Double-crested Cormorant 236
American Oystercatcher 2
Laughing Gull 15
Herring Gull 8
Great Black-backed Gull 8
Ring-billed Gull 78
Common Tern 1
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 132
Royal Tern 36
Parasitic Jaegar 5
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